"We are confident we can throw suflcient force against any' enemy who attempts to land on our shores, attack him and defeat him, If he is able to run the gauntlet of the Fleet and Air Force or descend upon our' land from the air we shall be attack. ing the enemy on our own soil for Jour own homes with all our forces under our own command, unhampored by the necessity of sending Supplies or reinforcements overseas.
can speak tonight in the spirit of tempered optimism. "I know. we have to face hard and anxious times! but "I also know that our strength and our spirit are sufcient or any time comes, as assuredly it will, to the carry the war against the "enemy wherever he may be found you can the certain we shall do so iith all our, mig "Already in other parts of world leving success in It is this offend spirit which so clearly animates forces in the Middle East. augurs well for the future."—Reuter, Airman Decorated for Great Courage London, June 26.
"During the evacuation of Dunkirk, 'A remarkable story of personal the R.A.F. is known to have destroyed d ish and courage is revealed as many as 70 German alreratt one day. Our airmen can hope to do even better than this in their own, announcement of the award of the Distinguished Service Order Flight-Lieutenant Tan Scovil Soden, "If some enemy get through, and they will, or if the sky above your head contains no British aircraft, do not ask angrily what the RAF. Is doing. They will be bringing down enemy planes 100 miles away and preventing damage to those things by which and through which we and our defence will live—docks, factories, ships, aerodromes,
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